Netflix Programming Boom Means New Dramas, Cooking Shows And Sandler Flicks

Published May 27, 2016 at 1:21 PM CDT

Netflix announced earlier this year that it’s planning to pour $6 billion into original programming in 2016.

As a new Adam Sandler and David Spade original film premieres tonight, NPR’s Eric Deggans tells Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti that the company’s definition of success is different for each project.

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Eric Deggans, TV critic for NPR. He tweets @Deggans.

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